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LAKEWOOD-BUSTI POLICE - LAKEWOOD - Jacob C. Sandy, 26, listed as homeless, was charged with seventh-degree criminal possession of a controlled substance July 3 at 8:04 p.m. after an officer patrolling East Fairmount Avenue reportedly saw Sandy, who the officer knew had an arrest warrant from Ellicott Town Court. Sandy was allegedly found with methamphetamine. Sandy was turned over to the Ellicott Police Department and will be in Busti Town Court later. - Ray R. Babyak, 21, of Jamestown was arrested at 9:30 p.m. July 3 after he was taken into custody on an arrest warrant by the ...

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Electrical Fire Quickly Doused At UPMC Chautauqua Jamestown firefighters quickly doused a fire at the UPMC Chautauqua hospital on Foote Avenue on Saturday afternoon. Officials report crews responded at 12:23 p.m. to the facility where smoke was showing. Responders then headed to the east elevator penthouse area and located a room that contained the fire. Crews checked the fire room and located electrical components of the elevator system burning. They then used a dry chemical extinguisher to extinguish the fire. Crews worked to ventilate the area, removing smoke with electrical ...

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CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE – MAYVILLE – Robert Kaczor Jr., 29, of Fredonia was charged Tuesday with two counts of second-degree criminal contempt. While in the Chautauqua County Jail, he allegedly contacted two individuals who possessed full stay away orders of protection against him. He will answer to the charges in Chautauqua Town Court at a later date. – PORTLAND – Joshua Dash, 44, of Portland was charged Wednesday with second-degree criminal contempt, endangering the welfare of a child and second-degree harassment. It is alleged that Dash harassed another ...

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JAMESTOWN POLICE DEPARTMENT --- Anne E. Robbins, 40, of Jamestown was charged with second-degree criminal possession of a forged instrument on Thursday. Before 11 p.m., officers conducted a traffic stop on Columbia Avenue near Forest Avenue for numerous observed traffic and equipment violations. During the course of the traffic stop it was determined that the license plate on the vehicle was forged. Robbins was taken into custody and was currently on probation for the same charge stemming from an incident earlier this year where she was in possession of another forged license plate. ...

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CHAUTAUQUA COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE – NORTH HARMONY – Telly Ortiz Jr., 27, of Jamestown, was charged Friday with fourth-degree criminal possession of a weapon and insufficient tail lights. Deputies pulled over Ortiz around midnight on Route 394 in North Harmony for a traffic infraction and said they observed a weapon inside the vehicle. He was processed on scene and released with an appearance ticket scheduled to appear in the Town of North Harmony Court at a later date. JAMESTOWN POLICE - Tiffany M. Freedline, 35, of Jamestown was charged with three counts of failure to ...

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JAMESTOWN POLICE - An 18-year-old Jamestown youth was charged with gang assault early Wednesday morning. Around 2:45 a.m. Wednesday, Jamestown police officers were alerted to an in-progress assault behind the former Oriental Star restaurant in Brooklyn Square, on the Riverwalk. According to a police report, officers arrived and saw three people running west across South Main street. Officers caught two youths and 18-year-old Julio Arizmendi. Police allege Arizmendi, the two youths and an unidentified Black male attacked a person with a stick, knife, imitation pistol and a glass bottle ...